OK, just topped my previous one. Same boat, 1941, south west off Ireland. Shadowing a convoy, I suddenly get attacked (WTF is the watch crew doing? Playing dice on the tower deck?!) by a frigate. At the same time, an ASW trawler chugged steadily on me. I was aggressive, popping torpedos at 300-200m and missing (going to kill the weapons engineer, I swear: what do you think about putting his head in the way of torpedo door and repeatedly closing in on his stupid a**?). I, uh, calmed down when I got rammed by someone. A lone DD! Never saw it coming. Bang, electro section out, lost both electrics and compressor. The boat hit the bottom at 120m. I fixed what I could and just waited for them to run out of charges. After several hours I surafced and again made flank speed (on one motor) to Lorient.
To make matters worse, I already got killed by that convoy 2 times. I must be doing something very wrong. Damn, I miss the happy, simple times when I shot schooners with flak.
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